[Talk-us] US Addressing

[Paul Norman]

Ogr will read personal geodatabases with the appropriate drivers so ogr2osm
will read them, so if the legal issues can be sorted out there's no problem.

 

From: Steven Johnson [mailto:sejohnson8 at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 10:04 AM
To: Open Street Map Talk-US
Subject: Re: [Talk-us] US Addressing

 

I'm wholeheartedly behind this effort as address data have long been an
interest. 

So I just had a quick look at obtaining data for Arlington, VA. The data
(current as of May 2012) are available on CD for cost of reproduction ($125)
and includes address points, plus parcels, zoning, flood control zones, etc.
The data are furnished in ArcGIS *personal* database format ONLY. (I have
access to ArcGIS, so could theoretically convert them.) The data are
copyrighted and Arlington County owns all rights to the data and allows use
"...as an acknowledged source to produce maps or analysis but you may not
redistribute, resell, or copy the data (except for back-up purposes)."

Probably other jurisdictions out there that place similar conditions on
their data. 

-- SEJ
-- twitter: @geomantic
-- skype: sejohnson8

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." --
Einstein




On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:

The Iowa DNR has an ongoing project to provide statewide geocoding
data.  As of this summer they had about 50% of the state covered:

http://iagiservicebureau.blogspot.com/2012/06/first-batch-of-geocoding-proje
ct-points.html

It would be fairly trivial to convert these shape files and import them.

 

That is awesome. I'm adding data to the spreadsheet based on this listing
here:

ftp://ftp.igsb.uiowa.edu/gis_library/counties/ 


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